Arizona’s independent senator, Kyrsten Sinema, has everyone on both sides of the political aisle wondering what she’s up to. Her latest way of snarling partisan politics is by daring to side with conservatives on crucial border issues. She’s furious that Eric Adams got $100 million, while her state got squat. She blames it on back room Democrat deals.
Sinema fighting for fairness
While Kyrsten Sinema used to be a Democrat, they parted ways last year over policy. She was far too “centrist” for the radical left. Instead of hiding in the closet as a DINO, she came out. She might not be conservative but shows, through her record, that she’s at least conservative “curious.” She’s totally infuriating liberals now, by criticizing the Biden border chaos. Republicans are terrified of her because she’s already proven herself more “conservative” than Jeff Flake and Martha McSally.
Meanwhile, Arizona’s crucial block of independent conservatives have been watching her performance. And nodding in approval. That has Kari Lake terrified because her sycophantic use of Donald Trump as her only selling point doesn’t go over well with Libertarians. They want to see real substance. Even the ones who love Trump.
Politico is having a really hard time getting their head around what Sinema is saying. “Border-state Democrats are frustrated,” they write, “to see New York claim most of a recent migrant relief infusion. But Arizona’s formerly Democratic senator is speaking out the loudest.” Joe Biden graciously printed up $800 million toward “alleviating overcrowded migrant holding facilities.”
Kyrsten Sinema rips Biden, Dems for giving $100M in border funds to NY https://t.co/3tuPzXSUXs pic.twitter.com/njcUfZNPR4
— New York Post (@nypost) August 16, 2023
Adams got $104 million right off the top, thanks to two powerful senators, Schumer and Jeffries. Arizona, who’s been rounding them up, feeding, clothing and medically treating the invaders for years gets a measly $24 million.
Sinema isn’t the only one crying foul for that but she is the only one pointing the finger directly at Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for it. She accuses them of having something that they’re holding over Joe Biden’s head. Earlier this month, she told crowds in Yuma that she’s “livid” about her state’s treatment. She threw down the gauntlet by declaring it’s “important for people to know” WHY New York got such a huge check.
“It’s fairly obvious. I don’t know if you noticed, but the announcement about that $104 million came out first, in a joint press release from Schumer and Jeffries.” That’s important because it did not come from “the White House or from FEMA. The first news of it broke by their press release.” They couldn’t wait to brag about it on social media.
An unorthodox legislator
All Politico can do is shake their head, roll their eyes and gasp, “wow.” The funding dispute, they assure Democrats, “is complex and multi-faceted, pitting Sinema and her Democratic border-state colleagues against the clout that New York’s two congressional Democratic leaders wield.” They’re threatening Joe Biden with it like an assault hammer.
It also boosts Sinema’s “outlaw” image with her supporters along the wild west frontier. One of “an unorthodox legislator willing to oppose either party’s leaders as she mulls whether to seek another term.”
In her favor from a left-leaning perspective, “Sinema votes more frequently with Democrats than Sen. Joe Manchin.” They still haven’t forgiven her for the way she “left the party last year and does not attend its caucus meetings.” That creates what liberals see as “awkward questions about whether she will run again next fall in a three-way race against Gallego and whichever Republican wins the primary, potentially the polarizing pro-Trump Kari Lake.” They most carefully avoid explaining why.
Sinema is coming after Biden https://t.co/nUFDdXXBQA
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 16, 2023
Ruben Gallego may get the Democrat vote and Lake would almost certainly have full Republican support. What scares the political Deep State enabling status quo is the fact that Republicans are far out numbered by registered Independents and Libertarians. They’re the ones who have decided the past few races, hands down. They’re also the reason why a traditionally conservative state like Arizona currently has two Democrat senators. Mark Kelly is only a temporary anomaly, soon to be corrected, but Sinema has a real chance with their support.
The next big battle will be over the upcoming budget negotiations. Another shutdown is looming and this will be one of the issues which could be a game changer.
“Now that a yeoman’s amount of this funding has gone to the interior of the country, not to border communities, that lift to get another tranche of this funding — to get more of it approved — is even heavier than before,” Sinema relates. Nobody’s getting another dime until the border states get reimbursed for what they’ve already shelled out. That means Joe’s going to need to print up a whole lot more money, raising the inflation even higher. That’s “Bidenomics.” Joe’s way to “spend our way out of bankruptcy.“
